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#1
$250K/moT1
Letterly
Voice in, well-written text out — that's the entire feature set, and simplicity is the moat
Simple ToolT1
Simple Tool
#2
≈$115K/moT1
nano-banana.ai
Snipe the exact-match domain of a viral model and run a third-party image-gen site: 3M visits in launch month

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AI Website
T1
AI Website
#3
$40KT1
Selling Shovels in the OpenClaw Ecosystem
The gold rush is on: simple cloud's one-click deploy tool did $7K in 3 days and passed $40K in subscriptions in two weeks
Ecosystem ToolT1
Ecosystem Tool
#4
$15K/moT1
Unblocked Games Site · AdSense Cash Cow + Flip
Build students a game hub their school network can't block, make $15K/mo from Google AdSense, then sell the whole site for $120K
AI WebsiteT1
AI Website
#5
Top-selling wa…T1
Selling AI Wallpapers on Xiaohongshu
Batch-generate phone wallpapers with AI, open a Xiaohongshu (RED) store, link the products, and let orders fulfill themselves — a zero-cost side hustle
AI E-commerceT1
AI E-commerce
#6
Peer accounts:…T1
AI Photo-Post Affiliate Selling (Apparel / Seniors)
Generate AI model outfit-swap images, link products through a Douyin (Chinese TikTok) showcase, and sell kids' clothing and senior womenswear through photo posts — winning on sheer volume
AI E-commerceT1
AI E-commerce
#7
A competitor's…T1
AI Birthday Doodle Portraits
Turn a customer's own photo into a hand-drawn doodle-style birthday portrait with AI and sell emotional value on Xiaohongshu (RED) at RMB 9.9 an order.
AI E-commerceT1
AI E-commerce
#8
8,000+ orders…T1
AI Chinese-Herb Story Commerce Account
Use AI to spin single Chinese medicinal herbs into stories for older audiences, then earn passive commission by listing the same herbs in your Douyin storefront.
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT1
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#9
New channel hi…T1
AI Pet Grooming Salon Shorts Channel
Reverse-engineer a viral food channel's formula, transplant it onto extreme pet-grooming makeovers, and generate the whole faceless short with AI
AI ContentT1
AI Content
#10
$15,000PROT1
Aura (design template, component and skill library for AI coding tools) — Meng To
Sell the taste that AI coding tools do not have: a library of templates, components and skills you feed the agent so it stops producing the same grey card layout — $15K MRR and 21,700 users in a month.
Ecosystem ToolPROT1
Ecosystem Tool
#11
$145T1
AI Book Interior Formatting for Amazon KDP (Fiverr service)
Self-published authors hand over a raw Word file and pay $145-$245 for a print-ready interior. Claude does the typesetting in one prompt, and the observed seller had seven orders queued at that price.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#12
$10K/moPROT1
LinkedIn Content Service for Construction & Glazing Firms (Brandon)
A construction-industry executive sells the one thing his own industry has nobody doing: writing and coaching LinkedIn content for glazing and contracting firms
AI ServicePROT1
AI Service
#13
$13.33T1
AI Clip Art Packs on Etsy (Claude Code batch-generating style-consistent art)
One Etsy shop just over ten months old has taken 14,900+ sales selling downloadable clip art packs — and Claude Code can now batch-produce a 25-image pack that matches a reference style in one prompt.
Digital PublishingT1
Digital Publishing
#14
$400,000T1
The free AI workshop as a Trojan horse (Matteo: $400K+)
Run a free AI training session for a company you already have a connection to, fix one of their real repetitive tasks live in the room, and let 70% of them turn into paid projects — one operator in Liam Ottley's community has made over $400,000 doing exactly this.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#15
$894,000T1
The GoodNotes Digital Planner (a single $894K Etsy listing)
One PDF planner built specifically for GoodNotes, sold on Etsy, at $894,000 in lifetime sales from one listing
Digital PublishingT1
Digital Publishing
#16
$6,300T1
AI Vintage Junk Journal Printable Bundles (Etsy)
One digital listing of AI-generated vintage journal pages: 395 sales and over $6,300 in two months, no inventory, no shipping, and the same process rebuilt five more times with a different theme.
Digital PublishingT1
Digital Publishing
#17
$6PROT1
Personalized Can Coolers (AI art + Printify + Etsy)
A $6 print-on-demand can cooler that buyers purchase fifty at a time for weddings, parties and group trips — with the buyer typing their own text into the design
AI E-commercePROT1
AI E-commerce
#18
$40K/moT1
PrayLock
A screen-time blocker that makes you pray before Instagram opens — one gimmick feature, one religious community, $40K a month.
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#19
$106,000PROT1
The 1,400-Subscriber Channel That Closed a $106,000 Contract (Carla, offshore staffing)
An unmonetized YouTube channel with 1,400 subscribers and 100-200 views a video closed a single B2B contract worth over $106,000 — because it was built for one buyer, not for an audience.
AI ServicePROT1
AI Service
#20
~$12,000T1
TrendFeed (creator marketing and audience-growth tool)
A non-technical founder shipped a creator marketing tool built entirely inside Cursor, did £5,500 on launch day and around $12,000 in four weeks, with zero marketing spend — all traffic came from his own TikTok, Instagram and YouTube posts.
SaaST1
SaaS
#21
$3,000/moT1
Sandy's Upwork-to-Retainer AI SEO Service
She had never done SEO and had never used AI for it. She answered a fresh Upwork job posting with a Loom video, sold a $3,000/month blog retainer, lifted the client's SEO traffic 1,000% and got raised to $5,500 — on about twenty minutes a day.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#22
$90T1
AI-Built Client Websites + Recurring Hosting Commission
One observed Fiverr seller: 4,100 five-star reviews and 44 orders queued at $90 for a three-page site. The build now takes hours with an AI site generator — and the hosting referral pays every month after delivery.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#23
$80KT1
Rabbit Holes AI
A downloadable multi-model AI chat app where side-topics branch off into their own threads — sold once for $90 lifetime, running on the user's own API keys, so there is no server bill and no token cost
INSimple ToolT1
INSimple Tool
#24
₩3BPROT1
Rizz GPT (and Blake's three-app portfolio)
Screenshot your chat with a girl, and an AI tells you what to text back — a 23-year-old who could not code shipped it by asking ChatGPT how, then spent $100 on one video and went to ₩100M a month
Consumer AppPROT1
Consumer App
#25
$25K/moT1
Storemapper
One embed snippet that drops a searchable store-locator map onto any e-commerce site — a feature so small it looks like nothing, sold at $19 to $59 a month, and reported at $25K/mo before the founder sold it and became an investor
USPlatform PluginT1
USPlatform Plugin
#26
$25K/moT1
SuperLemon
An Indian founder noticed that Shopify's abandoned-cart emails are useless in countries where everyone lives on WhatsApp — so he shipped a chat button and a WhatsApp cart-recovery app, reached 15,000+ stores, and it became his first $25K/mo micro-SaaS
INPlatform PluginT1
INPlatform Plugin